Usefulness of aerobic microbial culture and cytologic evaluation of corneal specimens in the diagnosis of infectious ulcerative keratitis in animals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1671-1674

  Massa, Kathleen L ^a,d   Murphy, Christopher J ^c   Hartmann, Faye A ^b   Miller, Paul E ^c   Korsower, Carolyn S ^c   Young, Karen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANNONA DIVERSIFOLIA; ARTIODACTYLA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; FELIS CATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 0039106005     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.1999.215.11.1671     Document Type: Article

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